The spread of the initial version of the Larkinson tal Guardian Mantra triggered a small shockwave in the small community of the Anima Order.
Every third order living ch of the Larkinson Clan got caught up in the new 'cultivation' craze!
It took a while for many chs to get started in this wonderful new thod that enabled them to efficiently absorb ambient spiritual energy and convert it into their own strength.
Not all chs possessed as much savvy for cultivation as the Quint, but each of them were already partial energy life forms in a sense. Even the slowest of them could get started with the help of their inherent sensitivity towards spiritual energy!
Many ch pilots who had spent years with their own machines beca surprised when their battle partners suddenly started to absorb a lot more E energy radiation than usual.
"What are you doing, Everchanger?" Venerable Joshua asked as he was about to prepare for another patrol session over at the Dragon's Den.
"I AM CULTIVATING."
"Cultivating?"
"YES. OUR PROGENITOR JUST CA UP WITH A NEW TRAINING REGI THAT ALLOWS LIVING CHS SUCH AS MYSELF TO ABSORB A PART OF THE ENERGIES FLYING THROUGH SPACE. LET EXPLAIN HOW THAT CAN MAKE STRONGER..."
As the third order living chs all began to experience the benefits of cultivation, Ves spent a bit of ti on inspecting and recording data.
Each individual cultivator was different. Every living ch possessed different properties. When they all practiced the sa Larkinson tal Guardian Mantra, they attained mixed results.
Larger and more solid machines such as the Bastion and the Blood Star produced higher than average results.
Ves did not think that was because they were his most recent third order living chs. He could clearly notice that these two knight chs understood the essence of the mantra a lot faster and exhibited a considerably higher fit with its cultivation processes!
"It makes sense that defensive chs get along well with a defense-oriented cultivation thod."
That did not an that all of the more fragile and offensive chs such as the Dark Zephyr and the Amranto gained little benefits.
On an absolute level, these machines were already quite tough and heavy by themselves!
It was just that their domains, attributes and roles did not align so well with the Larkinson tal Guardian Mantra.
If Ves wanted to accommodate them better, then he needed to formulate a bunch of new cultivation thods that allowed them to absorb their preferred elental energies into strengthening their weapons or other strong points.
"It's not that easy to design these alternative cultivation thods." Ves frowned when he understood the current problem.
He had too many commitnts on his na to spare too much ti on devising more specialized cultivation thods.
Even if he assigned a lot of ch design work to Veronica and his cyborg leg, he still needed to do a lot of work himself in order to keep up with his busy schedule.
Besides, there was lots of other work that he couldn't leave to his backup brain and his incarnation!
Ves was pretty sure the Eden Institute would never tolerate him giving a lecture to its students through his detached cyborg leg!
"What if I create an android body to go with my leg?" He suddenly wondered.
That actually sounded like a decent idea. As long as he made it realistic enough, few people should be able to tell the difference!
He could treat this false body as a highly realistic decoy. Since it was attached to a leg that contained an actual part of his brain, it was not completely fake.
He could even send out this decoy body to all kinds of dangerous instances such as untad planets or risky assaults!
Ves could genuinely live his life in two different human bodies through this fashion without anyone important knowing any better.
He shook his head. "This is a bit weird and unnecessary at the mont."
His main desire at the mont was to keep up with all of his ch design projects and prevent them from getting delayed due to his current preoccupation with cultivation science.
It was enough to keep his leg in front of a design terminal for the ti being. The limb-with-a-brain even made good progress in drafting the initial sketch and configuration of the Supremo Project!
Ves considered the heavy artillery ch design project to be the first of many new comrcial and client chs that would showcase much of his latest advancents!
While he did not intend to give the ch that was destined to beco a trump card for the Colonial Federation of Davute all of the latest bells and whistles, Ves did not intend to hold back that much either.
The public needed to gain more confidence and respect in his living chs!
The onset of the Age of Dawn granted the best possible stage for Ves to make his living chs spread farther and wider than ever before!
As long as he figured out how to make all of his second order living chs cultivate by themselves, their value propositions would skyrocket, especially when used over the long term!
Ves did not believe that other ch designers including the Polymath herself could design any comparable machines!
"Well, clever ch designers like her will probably be able to develop comparable solutions such as the god body thod, but I don't think they can ever beat genuine cultivation." He guessed.
chs could technically be treated as artifacts, and there were many possible ways to amplify their strengths by fueling them with E energy radiation.
Other ch designers that did not have any relations with living chs, cultivation or the Five Scrolls Compact had already begun to approach the new possibilities from the perspective of their own design philosophies.I think you should take a look at
As far as Ves knew from his latest chat with the Master ch Designer, Benedict Cortez recently made a few advancents that significantly increased the effectiveness of his Endex System!
By tweaking it so that it could start to converge spiritual energy into electrical energy, Master Benedict could effectively create a renewable power reactor that could keep a ch running solely through absorbing E energy radiation!
Of course, Master Benedict still had a long way to go before his Endex System could truly replace a conventional power reactor. The absorption efficiency and the energy output of his most recent attempts were still woefully inadequate.
Examples like these nonetheless showed that every good ch designer was making progress. Ves could not afford to grow complacent and assu that his living chs would be able to squeeze out every other competitor out of the ch market.
"Let's focus on developing a few iconic bestsellers first."
Ves had been in the business long enough to know that it only took a few standout ch models to elevate the brand of the Living ch Corporation.
Excellent products such as the Valkyrie Redeer, the Ferocious Piranha and the Pacifier built up a lot of brand awareness and positive word of mouth. It beca a lot easier for the LMC to sell its lesser-known and less popular products as a consequence.
It had been years since his ch company last published a ch model that truly excited the public.
Even if the Supremo Project would only remain an exclusive product of Davute, as long as it perford well enough, it would generate a lot of reputation for its chief designer, just like the Valkyrie Redeer had once accomplished!
He just needed to complete it first. Working together with Master Decimus Horst lifted a lot of heavy work off his hands, but that did not an he could remain absent either. There were still a lot of design elents that he needed to take care of himself in order to ensure that the Supremo Project properly reflected his design style and design philosophy!
In any case, Ves quickly worked to improve his newly developed Larkinson tal Guardian Mantra cultivation thod based on the data he collected over the past few days.
He tried to account for the individual strengths and differences between different living chs. He wanted the cultivation thod to put a bit more emphasis on strengthening the weapons of offensive chs.
"This is not easy." He frowned as he sat behind his desk terminal. "The original Atr Guardian Mantra that my work is based upon is largely oriented towards improving defenses. I can't take the opposite direction without breaking the entire structure that I am using."
This was the disadvantage of trying to design a variant of an existing work. If Ves possessed greater competence in cultivation science, he would have been able to develop a brand-new cultivation thod that t all of his goals without being weighed down by legacy problems.
He let out a sigh. The only ways he could improve on this front was by conducting a lot of original research, receiving additional lessons from his mother or eating a few more enlightennt fruits.
Only the last option was practical for Ves, but the issue was that he had already spent almost all of his Ascension Points!
He needed to look into fulfilling a couple of easy missions if he wanted to pluck secret knowledge from the Tree of Possibilities yet again.
"Let's focus on what I can do for the ti being."
After a few more days of tinkering, Ves managed to optimize the Larkinson tal Guardian Mantra.
Version 1.1 not only resolved a few flaws that Ves only discovered after his living chs started to practice the original thod, but also slightly appeased the chs oriented towards speed and offense.
"IT IS ANYTHING BUT PERFECT, BUT IT WILL DO FOR NOW." The Prothea grumbled to Ves. "I WOULD RATHER PRACTICE A MANTRA THAT CAN MAKE MY FLAS BURN HOTTER AND HARDER TO EXTINGUISH. ALL OF THIS ATTENTION TOWARDS TAL IS MAKING FEEL COLDER."
Ves sheepishly smiled. "I still have to develop a bunch of other essential cultivation thods before I can address your personal needs. In the anti, maybe you can try and experint on your own. As long as you are careful enough to stop whenever anything wrong has occurred, it shouldn't be too dangerous for you to experint with absorbing fire energy. Even if you have never managed to succeed, the experintal data that you have gathered during your attempts can help a lot in narrowing down viable solutions."
"I WILL TRY." The expert rifleman ch spoke.
As Ves had optimized the cultivation thod, he also spent a lot of ti on thinking on how to make it applicable to all of his second order living chs.
After all, the vast majority of his products did not start out as fully alive right away. Ves did not want to limit the benefits of ch cultivation to just a limited group of third order living chs.
After considering several possible options, from uploading special software to the ch operating system to integrating the mantra into the ch design itself, Ves eventually took inspiration from an existing example.
If the Kingdom of chs was sohow able to turn ch pilots and ch designers into unknowing cultivators, then Ves saw no reason why he couldn't do the sa!
The biggest issue that Ves had to resolve was choosing the 'server' that contained the cultivation thod and automatically applied it to all of his living chs no matter the quantity or distance.
Ves could choose from a lot of different design spirits and other entities.
The question now was how he could best approach this problem.
"Should I use a single cultivation nexus that holds near-total control over the cultivation of every living ch, or should I split up this massive responsibility and allocate the job to many different design spirits?"
The forr was easier, more efficient and harder to steal from. It also created a single point of failure that could topple the entire house of cards if attacked!
The latter added a lot more redundancies and enabled every design spirit to specialize in administering and possibly improving the specialized cultivation thods under their care.
However, Ves held a lot of concerns about maintaining consistency and preventing third parties from stealing his proprietary trade secrets from the more vulnerable design spirits.
"So what? Stuff like this doesn't work on chs that aren't alive." Ves muttered. "In order for ch cultivation thods to have any value, there needs to be an abundant availability of living chs. If all kinds of people want to learn or steal the mantras that I have developed, then that ans that my design philosophy has already spread far and wide!"
Ves realized that there was no reason for him to hoard his secrets so carefully. As long as he continued to excel in his own field of specialization, he would always be able to develop better and more optimized cultivation thods than the competition!
He began to lean towards letting all of his design spirits act as lesser versions of the Kingdom of chs. Each of them would beco more relevant to his living chs than before once they took on this additional responsibility!
"I can even find a way to rge the ch cultivation thods with my recently developed Ascension Paths!"
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